If you’ve ever gone to an event of any kind at War Memorial Field, you’ve seen their names. I’ve done it dozens of times and never taken notice — until a few weeks ago. Maybe it stood out because I had just written about the Pentagon Papers, which revealed that the government ...

DID YOU HELP WIN THE AFRICAN VICTORY? How much of YOUR scrap went into that big scrap? How much of the ammunition was made from YOUR waste fat? That’s what readers of the Warren-Times Mirror found on the editorial page on July 14, 1943. Welcome to the work of the American Fat Salvage ...

There are some baseball records that will likely never be broken. Joe Dimaggio’s hit streak. Cy Young’s 511 wins. Will White’s 680 innings pitched in 1879 (Youngsville’s Guy Hecker is third on that list). Pete Rose’s 4,256 hits. No one in the modern era has come anywhere ...

It’s been a busy several weeks. We don’t need to get into why but it has been. I was writing a couple weeks ago about John Hoyt and needed to head up to the Sheffield Cemetery for a photo to go with it. That day, for whatever reason, had slowed down. So I spent some time there and came ...

2.6 million men fought for the Union during the Civil War. You can guess the color of the uniforms of the vast majority of those men. For John Manley Hoyt, though, your guess would be wrong. That’s because he was one of the best marksmen in the entire army. As a member of the 2nd ...

“We are a small-town newspaper in pastoral northwestern Pennsylvania, far removed from and relatively untouched by the major machinations of big-city journalism and high government decision-making. “Yet, we support, encourage and defend the New York Times and Washington Post in their ...